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it made her feel the horrors of her own situation. Instead of a joyous bride, surrounded by approving friends, she was a miserable dependant on the honour of a man. of whose veracity she had of late strong and painful doubts. In the course of the evening, Jane found and opportunity of conversing unobserved with Henry, and repose her griefs in his bosom. How powerful is the language of persuasion from the lips of those we love! The youth called heaven to witness, that she was more dear to him than his own life; and that he would sooner suffer the most agonizing tortures that invention could devise, or cruelty inflict, than allow the idol of his heart to become the theme of babbling tongues. In short Jane soon felt a conviction that she had wronged her lover by her suspicions of his faith, and was eager to obtain his pardon for an offence that she blamed herself in committing against their mutual love. Ere they returned to the company, Jane reminded Henry that she thought the alliance that had taken place in their two families, would remove the bar to their own union, as she could not suppose Mr Percival would raise any objections to it, after he had to readily consented to join the hands of Lubin and Rosetta Master, as Henry was of dissimulation, yet this reasonable suggestion of the fair victim of his deceit staggered him: he was, what rarely occured to him, at a loss for an answer. At length, he stammered forth a few sentences, almost incoherent, from
